But unlike Sleeping Beauty, Zinnia isn't "suffering from a curse so much as fatal teratogenic damage caused by corporate malfeasance." There's been an industrial accident, and no one born with what the book calls Generalized Roseville Malady reaches 22. So much so, that she graduated early from high school and earned a degree in folklore studies from Ohio University, all before turning 21. In “A Spindle Splintered,” that archetypal story is "Sleeping Beauty," and protagonist Zinnia Gray has been drawn to it since she was a kid. In Alix Harrow's books, women move between worlds, sometimes because they find enchanted doors (The Ten Thousand Doors of January), sometimes because they rediscover and rekindle ancient magics (The Once and Future Witches), and sometimes because their own story echoes an archetypal story - and they want more from destiny.
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